The Botanist vs NexTurn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Botanist
Create beautiful botanical mandalas and arrangements using digital leaves and petals. Save and share your unique floral designs with friends. A relaxing and creative experience inspired by nature's beauty.
- Create botanical mandalas
- Arrange digital leaves and petals
- Save creations to device
- Share designs with friends
- Relaxing and creative experience
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The Botanist is an app of creativity, relaxation and beauty of nature. Select your leafs and petals and other botanical specimens and start laying mandalas and other amazing arrangements. Once you’re done, save your piece on device and share with friends!
NexTurn
Enhance your board game nights with this app that manages turns, timers, and scoring. It offers guided setups and smart scorepads, allowing players to focus on the game. It supports wireless light devices or can be used with phones as individual devices.
- Turn tracking and per-player timers
- Wireless light device integration
- Phone as a device option
- Community-driven game content
- Smart scorepads with automatic totaling
- Session history and stats
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NexTurn is the companion that will elevate game night. Whether you’re teaching a new game or racing the clock, NexTurn keeps the table moving — it tracks whose turn it is, runs the timers, walks you through setup, and keeps score, so you can focus on playing instead of refereeing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: NexTurn at every 6 days against The Botanist's every 11 months. NexTurn also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. The Botanist sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and NexTurn sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NexTurn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of The Botanist's written reviews are positive against 100% of NexTurn's.
The Botanist ships an update every 11 months, NexTurn every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | The Botanist | NexTurn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beige Elephant | Drop the Dice LLC |
Customer experience
The Botanist
NexTurn
In-app purchases
The Botanist
- Theme #1$1.99
- Theme #2$1.99
- Theme #3$1.99
NexTurn
- NexTurn Pro$9.99
